AP is reporting:The family of a woman killed trying to prevent the demolition of a Palestinian home in 2003 asked a federal appeals court panel to reinstate its lawsuit against Caterpillar Inc., saying the company knew bulldozers it sold to the Israeli government were being used to commit human rights violations."Caterpillar sold this product knowing - or it should have known - it would cause exactly this harm," one of the family's lawyers, Duke University law professor Erwin Chemerinsky told the three judges from the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Monday.The case had already been dismissed, but Chemerinsky, a prominent left wing lawyer, is arguing that the judge applied the wrong legal standard.Caterpillar has been joined by the Department of Justice in opposing the move:But lawyers for Caterpillar and the U.S. Justice Department, which filed a friend-of-the-court brief on Caterpillar's behalf, argued that letting the case proceed would require U.S. courts to...(Read Full Post)